Did I just make this up, or is it a rule that posters who are on official time out can't circumvent said time out by just creating a new screenname and posting like they were before? Vitaminc is now cminor and is back spouting the same sort of homophobic nonsense that got him timed out before.

Ah, I had not caught that, and an IP check confirmed what you suspected. Since he was timed out before his first post as cminor, I am using the nuclear option.

Thanks. He was pretty unapologetic about it, too, which is the odd thing. You get timed out for something, then create a new screenname to circumvent it, then go RIGHT back to doing the same thing that got you timed out... I think that's got to get you a Darwin nominee. Of course, he'll be back again, posting from his boyfriend's house as "cmenstainz" or something.

I may regret this, but can we squirrel the "My Boss is the Female Michael Scott" thread? I know it's buried so far down, it is almost as good as squirreled, but still....

She has Parkinson's and everytime I sit down to write a post, I think about how douchey it would be of me to do so and how I would hate myself if she ever found out.

My grandad had it, and I'm at moderately high risk for it, so maybe I'm inordinately sensitive about it.

I may start another thread about the IT people I've been working with (not really the IT people, but their bosses, who know nothing about IT, and do their best to stifle any and all improvement or innovation), but I'd really appreciate it if you could just squirrel the current thread.

Sorry for the downtime. It shouldn't have taken anywhere near that long. I figured while the site kept going nuts with load, I might as well just take it down for a little bit and optimize the dbase.

(pasted from other thread)

I was having the server people optimize the database again hoping it would speed things up a bit, the first guy did it wrong () and then after/while the next guy got it working right, we got DoS'ed. (Attacked)

Did I dumb out sometime between yesterday and today and start a thread with the word "douche" in it and link an ebay auction? I just checked my ebay search and saw a listing for some EGs and had a brief flash of something. Did I just dream that or do I need to put the bottle down?

Did I dumb out sometime between yesterday and today and start a thread with the word "douche" in it and link an ebay auction? I just checked my ebay search and saw a listing for some EGs and had a brief flash of something. Did I just dream that or do I need to put the bottle down?

What is the correct spelling? Neighbour or neighbor? Thanks for a little explanation, please.

Neighbour is Canadian/British, whereas neighbor is American. Other examples of words like that would be labour (Canadian/British) vs. labor (American) and colour (Canadian/British) vs. color (American). edit: lawyerdad beat me to it

Neighbour is Canadian/British, whereas neighbor is American. Other examples of words like that would be labour (Canadian/British) vs. labor (American) and colour (Canadian/British) vs. color (American).

edit: lawyerdad beat me to it

Thank you very much. I find that English English -- British English sounds much better than American English. Very classy.

Who? I've said many times I don't do sock puppets. I have enough trouble remembering my ONE fabulously unreal online persona, much less trying to keep up with multiple ones. I may have to look up this fellow, though; I can't have competition! Edit: Okay, I just looked him up. My poetry is nothing like that. And the only time I rhyme is in an heroic couplet.

Who? I've said many times I don't do sock puppets. I have enough trouble remembering my ONE fabulously unreal online persona, much less trying to keep up with multiple ones.

I may have to look up this fellow, though; I can't have competition!

Edit: Okay, I just looked him up. My poetry is nothing like that. And the only time I rhyme is in an heroic couplet.

I just thought that with the recent poetic posts you have made, coupled with the reference to Conne in the aforementioned user's initial post, that you may have given puppetry of teh socks a try. I also remember a post saying you couldnt do a sock puppet, and i agreed claiming you were too smart, so i thought you might try one that was dumbed down. Just a thought.'